European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Letting off steam
Clamped in place for tyring
Cleaning up
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Close up of the clamping
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Close up of the hub
Cooling the tyre down
Using a rasp
A 12 spoked wheel
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Adzes awaiting handles
Welding the tyre joint
Cooling the hot tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Initial shaping
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Shaped handles just made.
Dampening the flames
Sawing off the spoke ends
Using a press on the tyre join
Welding
The hot tyre in place
Drawknife in use
Welding a hub band
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Fitting the hot tyre
Trimming the felloes
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Cleaning up the tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Field gun wheels
Using a press on the tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Tail vice and dog
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use
Field gun wheels
Spot welding
Drawknife in use
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
A taper auger
Cleaning up the weld
Sawing off the spoke ends
Welding a hub band
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Detail of the wheel
Second tyre nearly in place
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Clamping the wheel down
Welding the tyre
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Cleaning up the tyre
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
A traveller in use on the wheel.
A pile of iron hubs
Shaping with a rasp
The second tyre being hammered in place
Hammering the tyre into place
Drawknife in use again.
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
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